Hi selva, On 17 Jun 2011, at 22:10, selva wrote:
1.consider a person cut off from all his senses,all his 5 senses shut down and now he is about to find a solution for a problem. Does his environment (or rather,positions of atoms/energy around him, ) ,affects his solution ?
Assuming mechanism, and some relatively high substitution level, the answer is no.
will there be different solution at different environments ?
There is no reason. The environment can only play a role through interaction, or interference, but this will not occur in the situation that you are describing.
2.consider an artificial brain fed with signals similar to normal brain and (for arguments sake )this artificial brain and a normal human brain have computational similarities...then will they have similar response? or as they are made of different materials there would be differences in response ?
It really depends on the mechanist assumption and the choice of the substitution level. The mechanist assumption just assumes the existence of a substitution level where you are Turing emulable. If the level is very low, the "environment" might be a part of your "generalized brain", and it is logically possible that you have to describe it at the Planck scale or below, but most neurophilosophers and physician believe that the generalized brain *is* the biological brain.
The 'reversal consequence' of Digital Mechanism does not depend on the substitution level. It depends only on the existence of such a level.
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